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Campus buildings contain years of history
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University of Washington, Tacoma
uwtledger.com
Vol. VII No. 14
May 15, 2003
LSO shares, celebrates tradition
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Voucher provides assistance, relief
by Kayla Cogdill
The new pilot childcare voucher program can provide University of Washington, Tacoma students with financial assistance for the first time ever.
The Services and Activities Fee Committee granted the child¬ care voucher program $90,292 to provide financial assistance to the most needy students with children. The money granted by the SAFC will provide the stu¬ dents $300 per quarter totaling $900 for one academic year.
The need for a childcare pro¬ gram has been a topic of discus¬ sion for ten years at the UWT campus. Childcare proposals were brought before the SAFC in previous years, but always reject¬ ed.
Four UWT students formulat¬ ed this year's proposal.
"If we are suppose to be a University of Washington cam-
Penney WMIb / The Ledger Jake Warren plays with his mom and brother between classes.
pus, we need a childcare pro¬ gram," Brook Bower, ASUWT vice-president and member ofthe childcare committee said.
See Voucher page 10
Claim of over-budgeted student center nullified
by Marques Hunter
On April 15 Sandy Boyle, vice chancellor for finance and administration, approved a $950,000 transfer from the Student and Activities (S&A) long term development account to capital projects, for an unprecedented student center establishment on campus.
According to President ofthe Student Govemment Brian Feller, the cost ofthe student center by estimators was originally $1.17 mil¬ lion, which would over budget the student center cost and force stu¬ dents to shell out an extra $170,000 from the S&A long-term devel¬ opment account.
See Center page 10
Parent soldiers experience conflict at home and overseas
by Kayla Cogdill
The job was never mtended to be easy. Durii^ the many weeks of training, sol¬ diers are taught how to shoot a gun and how to close within and destroy the enemy. Simi^. Yet soldiers still have to be tai^bt how to handle the emotional efTects of the job on their families.
Mamy ofthe soldiers that join the mili¬ tary do h fbr educaticmal purposes, finan¬ cial security, travel opportunities, but never to go to war.
As tfae war in Iraq has written another page in U.S. histwy, deployed soldiers are coining home. Many of the same ques¬ tions that other soldiers had to face in pre¬ vious wartime conflicts from the hardest critics will be asked of these retuming sol¬ diers.
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Soldiers with families are snatched into a cyclone of new respcmsibilities and new adjustments when they return home. Tony Brown, an IAS senior and a retired member of tfae U.S. Coast Guard after 26 years knew the scenario all to well.
"Major culture problems occur, you are almost like a stranger when you come home because your family has leamed how to adapt without you,** Brown said. "Now suddenly you are home and back in the picture.
"Soldiers, whether female or male, have to ease themselves into tfae family life and see how things have been handled while they were gone," Brown said. "Many ofthe soldiers are used to being in control while tfaey were away and when they come home tfaey no longer have that control."
See Soldiefs page 5
Photo courtesy of Mike artd Sophie Tulp
Sgt. Mike Tulp adoringly looks on his five month old son, Noah. Sgt Tulp, an active soldier at Fort Le%vis, will have to fece the same parenting challenges as other military soldiers. Noah is Sgt. Tulp and his wife Sophie's first son.
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